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Walenty from Widawa, the son of the burgher Wawrzyniec, began studies at the Krakow Academy in 1562, he graduated in 1569 receiving a master’s degree. In 1579 he began his theological studies and graduated in 1582 to obtain a baccalaureate, and after five years a doctorate in theology. He taught theology at the Faculty of Theology. In 1574 he became dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Krakow Academy, twice he was elected a rector: in the years 1595–1596 and 1600–1601. In his will, he wrote his collection, consisting of about 350 copies, to the parish of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Widawa. The text of this testament has survived in the archives of the Jagiellonian University, and in the files of the temple in Widawa, a catalog of books given by the rector Walenty to Widawa. Widavita’s library contained literary texts of Greek and Roman authors, dictionaries, grammar textbooks, old editions of the Bible, postillions, biblical commentaries, apostolic letters, sermons, chronicles, a catalog of church writers and numerous theological treatises, numerous texts by Polish authors. Widavita’s library is proof of the intellectual contacts of the professor with research and printing centers in Europe.

The book is an adaptation of an investigation presented to the César Vallejo University, whose objective was to analyze the achievements and difficulties in the implementation of the School Management Commitments (CGE) in virtuality. The study had a qualitative approach, phenomenological design. The managers of public educational institutions in Lima (Peru) were taken as the unit of analysis, the research was approached from phenomenology, using semi-structured interviews. The results found allowed to demonstrate a collaborative work in said institutions and by commissions; schedule compliance; workday; feedback to students; strategic alliances with Health Centers; monitoring through unannounced visits to strengthen pedagogical practice. On the other hand, the difficulties encountered were the problems of scarce technological resources, low signal and lack of internet for the use of schoolchildren; transfer of students from private schools; Constant changes of educational institution. It was concluded that in order to comply with the CGE, the participation of the entire educational community must be available, directly involving the directors to provide pedagogical support and monitoring of the teachers.

In this book, conventional and new methods through which sustainability can be promoted in mathematics and science subjects are described and discussed. The aim of the book is to support teachers and teacher educators in their work, and to create a multi-sided view on sustainability, and on education for sustainable development. Curriculums and teaching approaches for the implementation of sustainability in schools and universities, especially in teacher education, are discussed. The pedagocical studies presented give useful examples of how sustainability can be included in mathematics, physics and biology education. The described teaching methods are discussed also in relation to students' competence and learning outcomes. In addition, valuable ideas are presented for the development of curriculums and teaching practices in higher education and schools. The book is suited for all teachers and researchers who are interested in sustainability and sustainable development, and want to develop their teaching in higher education and schools.

Both infrastructure and research, make communications and exchanges between distant places possible. As a consequence, geographic positions and administrative borders are less and less significant compared to the polarity of the individual cities. From the port and infrastructural systems’ point of view, Trieste, can closely resemble this model by strengthening the two drivers for development, quality of life and employment opportunity. The specificity that needs to be investigated is the complex system that joins port logistics with innovation promoted by AREA Science Park among others.

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This Reprint highlights the latest advances in mineral-based catalysts and their principal oxide components—a cornerstone of green catalytic technology. Naturally abundant minerals with well-defined structures exhibit exceptional physicochemical properties, rendering them ideal catalysts or supports. Through strategic modification and activation, these materials significantly boost catalytic performance in critical environmental and energy-related applications. This collection features research on the synthesis and modification of mineral-based catalysts, as well as their applications in pollutant degradation, water splitting, CO2 reduction, and biomass conversion, offering innovative pathways toward a sustainable future.

The more than century-old Memoirs of a Sacromonte Schoolboy, written in 1917 by José María Caparrós Lorencio (1876-1935), a former student who had been ─in the last years of the 19th century─ under the learned tutelage of the College -Seminar of Theologians and Jurists of San Dionisio Areopagita, founded in the flourishing Granada of the early 17th century. As highlighted in a review at the time of its original publication, "for readers eager to learn about the history of national education, they are very instructive because they show, in vivid pictures, a surviving example of ancient educational institutions, and for the artist searching for typical scenes, they are of real interest due to the uniqueness of some of the subjects painted in rich colours by the passionate disciple of the institution that shaped his spirit in his early youth" , a highly authoritative testimony thus, of its pedagogical regime, as well as that of the life of the schoolchildren, as authentic as it is representative of one of those shifts in liberal educational policy which, invoking freedom of education, opted, albeit hesitantly, for greater leeway in the coexistence of non-public educational centres and in the recognition of the studies undertaken in them.

Spectral lines, widths, and shapes are powerful tools for emitting/absorbing gas diagnostics in different astrophysical objects (from the solar system to the most distant objects in the universe—quasars). On the other hand, experimental and theoretical investigations of laboratory plasma have been applied in spectroscopic astrophysical research, especially in research on atomic data needed for line shape calculations. Data on spectral lines and their profiles are also important for diagnostics, analysis, and the modelling of fusion plasma, laser-produced plasma, laser design and development, and various plasmas in industry and technology, like light sources based on plasmas or the welding and piercing of metals by laser-produced plasma. The papers from this book can be divided into four groups: 1. stark broadening data for astrophysical and laboratory plasma investigations; 2. applications of spectral lines for astrophysical and laboratory plasma research; 3. spectral line phenomena in extragalactic objects, and 4. laboratory astrophysics results for spectra investigation. The reviews and research papers, representing new research on the topics presented in this book, are of interest for specialists and PhD students. We hope that the present book will be useful and interesting for scientists interested in the investigation of spectral line shapes and will contribute to the education of young researchers and PhD students.

Chaque année, l’Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine (IRASEC), basé à Bangkok, mobilise une vingtaine de chercheurs et d’experts pour mieux comprendre l’actualité régionale de ce carrefour économique, culturel et religieux, au cœur de l’Indo-Pacifique. Cette collection permet de suivre au fil des ans l’évolution des grands enjeux contemporains de cette région continentale et archipélagique de plus de 680 millions d’habitants, et d’en comprendre les dynamiques d’intégration régionale et de connectivités avec le reste du monde. L’Asie du Sud-Est 2023 propose une analyse synthétique et détaillée des principaux événements politiques et diplomatiques, ainsi que des évolutions économiques, sociales et environnementales de l’année 2022 dans chacun des onze pays de la région. Ce décryptage est complété pour chaque pays par un focus sur deux personnalités de l’année et une actualité marquante en image. L’ouvrage propose également cinq dossiers thématiques qui abordent des sujets traités à l’échelle régionale sud-est asiatique : les ressorts institutionnels de l’approche de santé intégrée One Health, le vieillissement de la population et sa prise en compte par les politiques publiques, les câbles sous-marins au cœur de la connectivité sud-est asiatique, l’aménagement du bassin du Mékong et ses multiples acteurs, et les enjeux politiques et linguistiques des langues transnationales. Des outils pratiques sont également disponibles : une fiche et une chronologie par pays et un cahier des principaux indicateurs démographiques, sociaux, économiques et environnementaux.

The book uses interviews, informal conversations and extended observation at EDL events to critically reflect on the gap between the movement's public image and activists' own understandings of it. It details how activists construct the EDL, and themselves, as 'not racist, not violent, just no longer silent' inter alia through the exclusion of Muslims as a possible object of racism on the grounds that they are a religiously not racially defined group. In contrast activists perceive themselves to be 'second-class citizens', disadvantaged and discriminated by a 'two-tier' justice system that privileges the rights of 'others'. This failure to recognise themselves as a privileged white majority explains why ostensibly intimidating EDL street demonstrations marked by racist chanting and nationalistic flag waving are understood by activists as standing 'loud and proud'; the only way of 'being heard' in a political system governed by a politics of silencing. Unlike most studies of 'far right' movements, this book focuses not on the EDL as an organisation - its origins, ideology, strategic repertoire and effectiveness - but on the individuals who constitute the movement. Its ethnographic approach challenges stereotypes and allows insight into the emotional as well as political dimension of activism. At the same time, the book recognises and discusses the complex political and ethical issues of conducting close-up social research with 'distasteful' groups.

Is it possible to have mathematics experience in the school courtyard garden? Can we observe plants "with different eyes" and identify the connections between mathematical sciences and plant biology? This booklet contains and comments on three interdisciplinary activities that secondary school mathematics and science teachers can conduct in their classrooms, using the group laboratory work method. The proposed activities concern two apparently distant fields: geometry and botany, and are linked to the laboratory kit "Symmetry: mathematics in the garden" (http://specchi.mat.unimi.it/matematica/matematica_in_giardino.html). This work intends to provide teachers, and not only them, with an unusual classification tool based on symmetry and also with a look at topics that are little known to most people and not usually covered in the school curricula, such as floral diagrams and phyllotaxis.

(Trans)missions: Monasteries as Sites of Cultural Transfers focuses on the Catholic tradition of consecrated life (vita religiosa) from the High Middle Ages to the present. It gathers papers by authors from various disciplinary backgrounds, in particular art history, history, anthropology and translation studies. Finally, it includes two short reports on Czech projects on monastic topics. The chronological and geographical scope of the book is focused on the Western tradition from the High Middle Ages up to the present, specifically in the territory of Central Europe and Spain along with its overseas colonies. The region of Central Europe was interconnected with the Spanish Empire through the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs, allowing the given topic to be studied in a broader international context, and to involve the Central European and Spanish territories in the global flow of information, thus incorporating the regional and national histories of individual European countries into global history. This involvement is also enabled by the study of interconnecting themes, such as cultural transfers within and between the Old and the New World, information flows between the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs, the processes of individual and social identity formation, representation and othering of women, and the missionary activities of mendicant orders in the New World, together with their translation practices; and by the contextualization of monastic history and related themes within the processes of European internal and external colonization and evangelization.

As current debates in Western societies show, traditional gender roles are changing fast, and we see ourselves confronted with questions that transcend the division of roles between men and women, questioning the binary division of gender and even of biological sex. Yet, while old ideas of masculinity and femininity are losing their relevance and foundations, the allegedly conservative genre of the period drama is at least as popular as ever – if not more, as the global success of series like Downton Abbey shows. This book sets out to answer the question whether the most recent representatives of this genre, namely Downton Abbey (2010-2015), Mr Selfridge (2013-2016) and Upstairs Downstairs (2010-2012), nostalgically idealize times of seemingly clear-cut gender divisions, or whether they propose new conceptualizations of masculinity for the future. Several discursive strands that explicitly thematise masculinity run through all three series: The home and the role of the patriarch as ‘man of the house,’ the role of war, the body, and trauma for masculinities, the role as breadwinner and entrepreneur, and the relationship between the sexes as well as fatherhood. These are analysed using the methods of (multimodal) critical discourse analysis and social semiotics, combined with elements of spatial and subject theory. The results of this detailed analysis show the extent to which our current understanding of historical masculinities is used to either deconstruct or affirm modern masculinity.; Aktuelle Debatten in westlichen Gesellschaften zeigen, dass traditionelle Geschlechterrollen aufbrechen. Wir sehen uns mit Fragen konfrontiert, die nicht nur die Rollenverteilung zwischen den Geschlechtern betreffen, sondern die binäre Teilung von Geschlecht selbst in Frage stellen. Während aber alte Rollenbilder an Relevanz und Grundlage verlieren, erfreut sich, wie der weltweite Erfolg von Downton Abbey zeigt, gleichzeitig das als nostalgisch-reaktionär verschriene Genre des britischen period drama andauernder Beliebtheit. Diese Arbeit soll die Frage beantworten, ob die jüngsten Vertreter dieses Genres, nämlich Downton Abbey (2010–2015), Mr Selfridge (2013–2016) und Upstairs Downstairs (2010–2012), Vorbilder für eine neuartige Konstruktion von Männlichkeit liefern, oder aber tatsächlich traditionelle Vorstellungen von Männlichkeit nostalgisch verklären. Mehrere Diskursstränge, die Männlichkeit explizit thematisieren, ziehen sich durch alle drei Serien: Das Haus und die Rolle des Patriarchen als „Herrn des Hauses,“ die Bedeutung von Krieg, Körperlichkeit und Trauma für Männlichkeiten, die Rolle als Ernährer und Entrepreneur und das Verhältnis der Geschlechter sowie von Vaterschaft. Diese werden mit den Methoden der (multimodalen) kritischen Diskursanalyse und Sozialsemiotik, kombiniert Elementen der Raum- und Subjekttheorie, untersucht. Die Auswertung dieser Feinanalyse zeigt auf, inwieweit unser gegenwärtiges Verständnis historischer Männlichkeiten dazu genutzt wird, moderne Männlichkeit zu dekonstruieren bzw. zu affirmieren.

Assesses the battles over Internet regulation that will define the venue's future Who will rule cyberspace? And why should people care? Recently stories have appeared in a variety of news media, from the sensational to the staid, that portray the Internet as full of pornography, pedophilia, recipes for making bombs, lewd and lawless behavior, and copyright violators. And, for politicians eager for votes, or to people who have never strolled the electronic byways, regulating the Net seems as logical and sensible as making your kids wear seat belts. Forget freedom of speech: children can read this stuff. From the point of view of those on the Net, mass-media's representation of pornography on the Internet grossly overestimates the amount that is actually available, and these stories are based on studies that are at best flawed and at worst fraudulent. To netizens, the panic over the electronic availability of bomb-making recipes and other potentially dangerous material is groundless: the same material is readily available in public libraries. Out on the Net, it seems outrageous that people who have never really experienced it are in a position to regulate it. How then, should the lines be drawn in the grey area between cyberspace and the physical world? In net.wars, Wendy Grossman, a journalist who has covered the Net since 1992 for major publications such as Wired, The Guardian, and The Telegraph, assesses the battles that will define the future of this new venue. From the Church of Scientology's raids on Net users to netizens attempts to overthrow both the Communications Decency Act and the restrictions on the export of strong encryption, net.wars explains the issues and the background behind the headlines. Among the issues covered are net scams, class divisions on the net, privacy issues, the Communications Decency Act, women online, pornography, hackers and the computer underground, net criminals and sociopaths, and more. Full text online version at www.nyupress.org/netwars.

This collection critically examines the translation of international queer media and popular culture in China, offering insights into how queer media travels across international borders and interacts with mainstream media flows and local cultures. The book brings together work from queer translation studies as well as emergent research on methodologies and online subcultures to explore not only textual translation but reception and media cultures. Case studies range from television shows such as Heartstopper to The L Word and films such as Carol and Call Me by Your Name . In exploring diverse genres and forms of media, chapters collectively elucidate the ways in which popular culture can transmit ideas about sexuality and subsequently, how these ideas are negotiated, adapted, and altered in translation. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in translation studies, Chinese studies, gender and sexuality studies, and media studies.